Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1998

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1998
January 2 Oscar and Lucinda (Wide) Fox Searchlight $1,612,957
 
January 9 Arguing the World (Wide) First Run Features $47,044
Firestorm (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,123,860
 
January 16 Live Flesh (Wide) MGM $1,535,558
Fallen (Wide) Warner Bros. $25,310,938
Half Baked (Wide) Universal $17,394,881
Hard Rain (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,870,567
Illtown (Wide) Artisan $68,955
Star Kid (Wide) Trimark $7,015,240
Bob Dylan Don't Look Back (1967) (Re-release) (Limited, re-release) $27,158
The Dress (Limited) Attitude Films $16,556
Full Speed (Limited)  
 
January 21 Fallen Angels (1998) (Limited) Kino International $58,318
 
January 23 The Gingerbread Man (Wide) Polygram $1,626,593
Phantoms (Wide) Miramax $5,755,333
Slappy and the Stinkers (Wide) Sony Pictures $34,488
Spice World (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,342,592
Swept From The Sea (Wide) Sony Pictures $283,081
 
January 30 Caught Up (Wide) Live Film & Mediaworks $6,754,958
Deceiver (Wide) MGM $699,062
Deep Rising (Wide) Walt Disney $11,203,026
Desperate Measures (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,678,274
Four Days in September (Wide) Miramax $310,724
Great Expectations (Wide) 20th Century Fox $26,333,044
Taste of Cherry (Wide) New Line $311,873
Zero Effect (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,080,693
It’s in the Water (Limited) $130,928
Killing Time (Limited) Lionsgate $12,154
February 1998
February 6 Blues Brothers 2000 (Wide) Universal $14,089,198
The Night Flier (Wide) New Line $91,549
The Replacement Killers (Wide) Sony Pictures $19,035,741
 
February 13 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (Wide) Strand Releasing $209,244
The Borrowers (Wide) Polygram $22,619,589
Hurricane Streets (Wide) MGM $334,041
The Only Thrill (Wide) $15,093
Post Coitum, Animal Triste (Wide) New Yorker $109,596
Sphere (Wide) Warner Bros. $37,068,294
The Wedding Singer (Wide) New Line $80,245,725
 
February 20 Dangerous Beauty (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,553,271
I Love You … Don't Touch Me! (Wide) MGM $33,598
Love Walked In (Wide) Sony/TriStar $5,000
Mrs. Dalloway (Wide) First Look $3,263,672
Palmetto (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,846,660
Senseless (Wide) Miramax $13,109,234
 
February 27 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Wide) Walt Disney $45,779
Dark City (Wide) New Line $14,435,076
Kissing a Fool (Wide) Universal $4,100,505
Krippendorf's Tribe (Wide) Walt Disney $7,571,115
Kurt and Courtney (Wide) Roxie Releasing $441,808
The Real Blonde (Wide) Paramount Pictures $247,745
March 1998
March 6 The Big Lebowski (Wide) Gramercy $19,120,853
Hush (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,587,246
The Leading Man (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000
Love and Death on Long Island (Wide) Lionsgate $2,542,264
Men with Guns (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $742,032
Twilight (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,055,091
U.S. Marshals (Wide) Warner Bros. $57,833,603
Midaq Alley (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment  
Notes from Underground (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000
Everest (IMAX) MacGillivray Freeman Films $87,178,599
 
March 11 Funny Games (Limited) Attitude Films  
 
March 13 Chairman of the Board (Wide) Trimark $306,715
The Man in the Iron Mask (Wide) MGM $56,968,169
 
March 20 Fireworks (Wide) $401,540
Madadayo (Wide) WinStar Cinema $48,856
Mr. Nice Guy (Wide) New Line $12,716,953
Niagara, Niagara (Wide) Live Entertainment $168,462
On Guard (Wide) Empire Pictures $96,750
Primary Colors (Wide) Universal $39,017,984
A Rat's Tale (Wide) Legacy Releasing $33,768
Wide Awake (Wide) Miramax $305,704
Wild Things (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,795,299
 
March 25 A Price Above Rubies (Wide) Miramax $1,118,808
 
March 26 Who the Hell is Juliette? (Limited) Kino International $25,646
 
March 27 Couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2, Les (Wide) $146,072
Grease (Wide, re-release) Paramount Pictures $188,620,000
Character (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $713,413
Meet the Deedles (Wide) Walt Disney $4,356,126
The Newton Boys (Wide) 20th Century Fox $10,341,093
No Looking Back (Wide) Gramercy $143,273
Ride (Wide) Miramax $5,485,295
The Proposition (Limited) Polygram $1,622,381
April 1998
April 3 Artemisia (Wide) Miramax $377,512
Barney's Great Adventure (Wide) Polygram $11,156,471
The Butcher Boy (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,822,193
Heaven's Burning (Wide) $5,000
Lost In Space (Wide) New Line $69,117,629
Mercury Rising (Wide) Universal $32,983,332
The Spanish Prisoner (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $10,162,034
Warners 75th (Wide) Warner Bros. $498,426
 
April 8 The Players Club (Wide) New Line $23,047,939
 
April 10 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (Wide) Sony Pictures $308,082
The Big One (Wide) Miramax $720,074
City of Angels (Wide) Warner Bros. $78,750,909
I Think I Do (Wide) Strand Releasing $278,332
The Last of the High Kings (Wide) Miramax $2,647
My Giant (Wide) Sony Pictures $7,985,929
The Odd Couple II (Wide) Paramount Pictures $18,912,328
Species 2 (Wide) MGM $19,217,565
 
April 15 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (Wide) October Films $72,544
 
April 17 Chinese Box (Wide) Trimark $2,265,328
Homegrown (Wide) Sony Pictures $215,553
Major League: Back to the Minors (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,551,208
Nightwatch (Wide) Miramax $1,278,516
The Object of my Affection (Wide) 20th Century Fox $29,145,924
Paulie (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $27,084,499
Sour Grapes (Wide) Sony Pictures $219,932
Suicide Kings (Wide) Artisan $1,692,872
Wild Man Blues (Wide) New Line $483,917
 
April 22 Deja Vu (Wide) Rainbow Releasing $821,997
 
April 24 The Big Hit (Wide) Sony Pictures $27,066,941
In God's Hands (Wide) Sony Pictures $1,431,239
Music From Another Room (Wide) Orion Pictures $5,000
Sliding Doors (Wide) Miramax $11,911,200
Tarzan and the Lost City (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,147,114
The Truce (Wide) Miramax $71,448
Two Girls and a Guy (Wide) Fox Searchlight $2,057,193
May 1998
May 1 A Friend of Deceased (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $157,437
Black Dog (Wide) Universal $12,857,351
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Wide) Sony Pictures $574,838
Go Now! (Wide) Gramercy $3,657
He Got Game (Wide) Walt Disney $21,567,853
Les Miserables (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,887,945
Shooting Fish (Wide) Fox Searchlight $302,204
Still Breathing (Wide) October Films $212,267
Wilde (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,157,701
 
May 4 Bugs Bunny Film Fest (Wide) $352,397
 
May 8 Deep Impact (Wide) Paramount Pictures $140,464,664
The Kingdom, Part II (Wide) October Films $8,294
Louisa May Alcott's Little Men (Wide) Legacy Releasing $4,092
Shopping for Fangs (Wide) Margin Films $2,194
Woo (Wide) New Line $8,064,972
Africa's Elephant Kingdom (IMAX) Discovery/IMAX $13,485,455
 
May 15 Bulworth (Wide) 20th Century Fox $26,528,684
The Climb (Wide) $78,677
Clockwatchers (Wide) Artistic License $537,948
The Horse Whisperer (Wide) Walt Disney $75,383,563
Lawn Dogs (Wide) Strand Releasing $106,292
Plump Fiction (Wide) Legacy Releasing $37,260
Quest for Camelot (Wide) Warner Bros. $22,772,500
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $19,265
 
May 19 Godzilla (Wide) Sony Pictures $136,314,294
 
May 22 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Wide) Universal $10,680,275
The Opposite of Sex (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $6,367,164
 
May 27 I Got the Hook-Up! (Wide) Miramax $10,317,779
 
May 29 Almost Heroes (Wide) Warner Bros. $6,175,688
Hope Floats (Wide) 20th Century Fox $60,110,313
Insomnia (Wide) First Run Features $221,173
The Last Days of Disco (Wide) Gramercy $3,024,198
Little Boy Blue (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $3,526
Day at the Beach (Limited) Arrow Releasing $9,980
Yellow (Limited) Phaedra Cinema $19,716
June 1998
June 5 Beyond Silence (Wide) Miramax $171,334
Mr. Jealousy (Wide) Lionsgate $287,752
A Perfect Murder (Wide) Warner Bros. $67,658,331
The Truman Show (Wide) Paramount Pictures $125,618,201
Charlie Hoboken (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment  
 
June 12 Can't Hardly Wait (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,358,996
Cousin Bette (Wide) 20th Century Fox $1,161,063
Dirty Work (Wide) MGM $10,020,081
High Art (Wide) October Films $1,835,565
The Land Girls (Wide) Gramercy $146,083
When I Close My Eyes (Wide) Fine Line  
Passion in the Desert (Wide) Fine Line $181,083
Six Days, Seven Nights (Wide) Walt Disney $74,339,294
 
June 19 Dream for an Insomniac (Wide) Avalanche Releasing $5,000
Hav Plenty (Wide) Miramax $2,301,777
Henry Fool (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,334,786
Mulan (Wide) Walt Disney $120,620,254
The X Files: Fight the Future (Wide) 20th Century Fox $83,898,313
 
June 20 Ambushed (Wide) $5,000
 
June 24 I Went Down (Wide) Artisan $405,297
 
June 26 Buffalo '66 (Wide) Lionsgate $2,380,606
Doctor Dolittle (Wide) 20th Century Fox $144,156,605
Out of Sight (Wide) Universal $37,562,568
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Wide) Atlantic $118,374
Smoke Signals (Wide) Miramax $6,719,300
Gone with the Wind (Limited, re-release) MGM $198,680,470
 
 
June TBD Talk to Me (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment  
July 1998
July 1 Armageddon (Wide) Walt Disney $201,578,182
Nights of Cabiria (Wide) Rialto Pictures $773,193
 
July 3 The Beyond (Limited, re-release) $126,387
Mark Twain's America 3D (IMAX) Sony Pictures Classics $2,992,106
 
July 10 Hands on a Hardbody (Wide) Legacy Releasing $909,650
Lethal Weapon 4 (Wide) Warner Bros. $130,444,603
Madeline (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,858,048
Pi (Wide) Live Entertainment $3,221,152
Small Soldiers (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $55,143,823
Whatever (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $229,750
 
July 15 There's Something About Mary (Wide) 20th Century Fox $176,484,651
 
July 16 Mysteries of Egypt (IMAX) Sony Pictures $40,593,286
 
July 17 The Mask of Zorro (Wide) Sony Pictures $93,828,745
Polish Wedding (Wide) Fox Searchlight $608,296
The Thief (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $1,126,115
Under Heaven (Limited)  
 
July 22 Lolita (Wide) MGM $1,147,784
The Saltmen of Tibet (Wide) Zeitgeist $146,437
 
July 24 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (Wide) Trimark $2,020,700
Disturbing Behavior (Wide) MGM $17,507,368
East Palace West Palace (Wide) Strand Releasing $46,470
Jane Austen's Mafia (Wide) Walt Disney $19,843,795
Saving Private Ryan (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $216,335,085
Western (Wide) New Yorker $200,840
 
July 29 The Negotiator (Wide) Warner Bros. $44,705,766
The Parent Trap (Wide) Walt Disney $66,308,518
 
July 31 BASEketball (Wide) Universal $7,042,541
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Wide) 20th Century Fox $65,705,772
Full Tilt Boogie (Wide) Miramax  
Governess (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $3,794,031
Killer Condom (Wide)  
Seventh Heaven (Wide) Zeitgeist $45
August 1998
August 5 Halloween: H2O (Wide) Miramax $55,041,738
 
August 7 First Love, Last Rites (Wide) Strand Releasing $10,876
Gadjo Dilo (Wide) Lionsgate $673,153
Safe Men (Wide) October Films $21,210
Snake Eyes (Wide) Paramount Pictures $55,591,409
Unmade Beds (Wide) New Yorker $75,752
 
August 14 Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Wide) Miramax $10,093,523
The Avengers (Wide) Warner Bros. $23,385,416
Chambermaid on the Titanic (Wide) MGM $244,465
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Wide) 20th Century Fox $37,672,944
Regeneration (Wide) Alliance Atlantis $19,273
Return to Paradise (Wide) Universal $8,352,677
Slums of Beverly Hills (Wide) Fox Searchlight $5,502,773
 
August 19 Your Friends and Neighbors (Wide) Gramercy $4,714,658
 
August 21 Blade (Wide) New Line $70,141,876
Dance With Me (Wide) Sony Pictures $15,923,354
Dead Man on Campus (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,064,948
The Eel (Wide) New Yorker $418,192
Next Stop Wonderland (Wide) Miramax $3,395,581
Strike (Wide) Miramax $968,506
Wrongfully Accused (Wide) Warner Bros. $9,642,860
 
August 28 54 (Wide) Miramax $16,757,163
I Married a Strange Person (Wide) Lionsgate $203,134
Like It Is (Wide) First Run Features $94,943
A Merry War (Wide) First Look $373,830
See the Sea (Wide) Zeitgeist $49,983
Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Wide) Warner Bros. $12,506,676
September 1998
September 3 The Jew in the Lotus (Wide)  
 
September 4 Firelight (Wide) Walt Disney $784,419
Knock Off (Wide) Sony Pictures $10,319,915
Modulations (Wide) Strand Releasing $138,425
Phoenix (Wide) Trimark $5,000
 
September 11 Chicago Cab (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $5,000
Digging to China (Wide) Legacy Releasing $33,000
Let's Talk About Sex (Wide) Fine Line $373,615
Out of the Past (Wide) $8,688
Rounders (Wide) Miramax $22,921,898
Simon Birch (Wide) Walt Disney $18,253,415
Without Limits (Wide) Warner Bros. $780,326
The Cube (Limited) $489,220
 
September 16 Permanent Midnight (Wide) Artisan $1,171,001
 
September 18 One True Thing (Wide) Universal $23,337,196
Rush Hour (Wide) New Line $141,186,864
Six-String Samurai (Wide) Palm Pictures $134,624
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (Wide) October Films $1,775,523
Somewhere in the City (Wide) Artistic License $7,016
 
September 23 Shadrach (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,167
 
September 25 The Brandon Teena Story (Wide) Zeitgeist $43,506
Clay Pigeons (Wide) Gramercy $1,793,359
The Last Big Thing (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $22,434
Monument Ave. (Wide) Lionsgate $332,388
Pecker (Wide) Fine Line $2,281,761
Ronin (Wide) MGM $41,610,884
Urban Legend (Wide) Sony Pictures $38,116,707
 
 
September TBD Naked Acts (Limited) $27,385
October 1998
October 2 Antz (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $90,757,863
Dear Jesse (Wide) Cowboy Pictures $15,631
Hit Me (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $12,491
The Imposters (Wide) Fox Searchlight $2,197,921
A Night at the Roxbury (Wide) Paramount Pictures $30,331,165
The Separation (Wide) Phaedra Cinema $62,626
Strangeland (Wide) Artisan $631,221
What Dreams May Come (Wide) Polygram $55,485,043
The Bicycle Thief (Limited, re-release) $361,712
 
October 7 Love is the Devil (Wide) Strand Releasing $343,023
 
October 9 C't'a ton tour Laura Cadieux (Wide) Alliance Atlantis $1,045,907
The Celebration (Wide) October Films $1,647,780
Holy Man (Wide) Walt Disney $12,069,719
The Inheritors (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $196,452
The Mighty (Wide) Miramax $2,652,246
One Tough Cop (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $1,313,607
Slam (Wide) Trimark $1,009,819
 
October 16 The Alarmist (Wide) Lionsgate $55,986
All the Rage (Wide) $198,553
Beloved (Wide) Walt Disney $22,852,487
Bride of Chucky (Wide) Universal $32,404,188
Happiness (Wide) Good Machine Releasing $2,746,453
Practical Magic (Wide) Warner Bros. $46,850,558
Reach the Rock (Wide) Gramercy $4,960
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Wide) $113,484
Razor Blade Smile (Limited)  
Some Nudity Required (Limited) Seventh Art Releasing $5,853
 
October 21 Freeriders (Wide) Warren Miller Entertainment $2,750,064
 
October 23 Apt Pupil (Wide) Sony/TriStar $8,863,193
The Cruise (Wide) Artisan $255,764
Les Boys II (Wide) Lionsgate $5,974,732
Life Is Beautiful (Wide) Miramax $57,598,247
Orgazmo (Wide) October Films $582,024
Pleasantville (Wide) New Line $40,584,421
Soldier (Wide) Warner Bros. $14,623,082
Last Night (Limited) Lionsgate $288,530
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (IMAX) IMAX Films $53,743,249
 
October 30 American History X (Wide) New Line $6,719,864
Living Out Loud (Wide) New Line $12,905,901
Summer of the Monkeys (Wide) $22,500
Talk of Angels (Wide) Miramax $15,546
Vampires (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,268,825
November 1998
November 4 Belly (Wide) Artisan $9,639,390
 
November 6 Elizabeth (Wide) Gramercy $30,082,699
Gods and Monsters (Wide) Lionsgate $6,451,628
The Siege (Wide) 20th Century Fox $40,934,175
Velvet Goldmine (Wide) Miramax $1,053,788
The Waterboy (Wide) Walt Disney $161,491,646
The Big Chill (Limited, re-release) Sony Pictures $56,077,501
 
November 13 Dancing at Lughnasa (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,361,632
Hard Core Logo (Wide) Miramax $17,012
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Wide) Sony Pictures $40,020,622
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Wide) Walt Disney $12,214,338
Meet Joe Black (Wide) Universal $44,650,003
River Red (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $2,197
Ten Benny (Wide) Artistic License $9,003
Thursday (Wide) Legacy Releasing $1,971
Welcome to Woop-Woop (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $35,471
 
November 20 Celebrity (Wide) Miramax $5,078,660
Central Station (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $5,969,553
Enemy of the State (Wide) Walt Disney $111,549,836
The Rugrats Movie (Wide) Paramount Pictures $100,494,685
Savior (Wide) Lionsgate $12,903
Storefront Hitchcock (Wide) MGM $3,073
Sue (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $113,775
Waking Ned Devine (Wide) 20th Century Fox $24,793,251
Taxi (Limited)  
A Bug’s Life (Exclusive) Walt Disney $162,798,565
 
November 24 Cracking Up (Wide)  
 
November 25 Babe: Pig in the City (Wide) Universal $18,319,860
Home Fries (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,513,979
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster (Wide) Artisan $9,257,103
The Mirror (Wide) $69,225
Steam: The Turkish Bath (Wide) Strand Releasing $655,078
Very Bad Things (Wide) Polygram $9,949,470
Vietnam Long Time Coming (Wide) $951
The Last Emperor (Limited, re-release) Artisan $43,984,987
The Nutcracker (IMAX) IMAX Films $1,009,291
 
November 27 A Bug’s Life (Expands Wide) Walt Disney $162,798,565
December 1998
December 4 Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (Wide) Artistic License $719
Hi-Life (Wide) Lionsgate $7,957
Little Voice (Wide) Miramax $4,595,000
Psycho (Wide) Universal $21,541,218
Shattered Image (Wide) Lionsgate $102,523
Vig (Wide) $5,000
 
December 11 Didn't Do It For Love (Wide) First Run Features $10,525
Jack Frost (Wide) Warner Bros. $34,645,374
The Ogre (Wide) Kino International $49,166
Red Meat (Wide)  
Shakespeare in Love (Wide) Miramax $100,317,794
A Simple Plan (Wide) Paramount Pictures $16,316,273
Star Trek: Insurrection (Wide) Paramount Pictures $70,187,658
Rushmore (Limited) Walt Disney $17,105,219
 
December 18 The Emperor's Shadow (Wide) $71,906
The General (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,256,461
Outside Ozona (Wide) Sony Pictures $7,394
The Prince of Egypt (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $101,413,188
You’ve Got Mail (Wide) Warner Bros. $115,821,495
 
December 23 The Day of the Beast (Wide) Trimark $15,324
The Thin Red Line (Wide) 20th Century Fox $36,400,491
The Theory of Flight (Limited) Fine Line $71,999
 
December 25 A Civil Action (Wide) Walt Disney $56,709,981
The Faculty (Wide) Miramax $40,283,321
Mighty Joe Young (Wide) Walt Disney $50,632,037
Patch Adams (Wide) Universal $135,014,968
Stepmom (Wide) Sony/TriStar $91,137,662
Down in the Delta (Limited) Miramax $5,672,903
Hurlyburly (Limited) Fine Line $1,798,862
 
December 28 This is the Sea (Wide) $5,000
 
December 30 Hilary and Jackie (Wide) October Films $4,874,838
Affliction (Limited) Lionsgate $6,330,054
Another Day in Paradise (Limited) Trimark $1,036,818
The Hi-Lo Country (Limited) Gramercy $166,082
Playing by Heart (Limited) Miramax $3,956,212